Weird question marks replacing quotes, apostrophes, and three dots

[81dmc]

I noticed sometimes if I type ?what?s going on? , it will replace the apostrophe and quote marks with question marks. Only noticed that on this forum.

[Helirich]

My posts look like that here also. Not usely question marks, sometimes Swedish letters. (Lol) How about ?now??

Edit, I guess it question marks now.

[Ron]

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Edit, I guess it question marks now.

Nothing has changed here -- The difference is what is being used to create/send the characters...

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Check out THIS link.

[81dmc]

So basically because the forum is old, it can?t accept characters from an iPhone?

Never seen this on other forums.

[Ron]

So basically because the forum is old, it can?t accept characters from an iPhone?

Never seen this on other forums.

Yes. (It's a common problem with email, Word docs, ect.)

As I understand it, the iPhone may be using a character set that is not backwards compatible (ISO-8859, 1 byte, 128 characters v/s UTF-8 multi bite, ~2 billion characters). So one character may be interpreted as several, or set to a question mark (or other default) when unrecognized.

[Citizen]

This finally bit me too. So I decided to do an experiment. The following tests are typed exactly alike using the indicated applications, then copied/pasted into this post (except #6, which is typed in directly).


--[ Begin Test ]--------------------------------------------------

1-MS Word
?‘single quoted?’
?“double quoted?”
?question mark?

2-MS Wordpad
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark?

3-MS Notepad
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark?

4-Notepad++
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark?

5-Email (Windows Live Mail Client)
'single quoted'
"double quoted'
?question mark?

6-Typed-in Directly into DMCTalk thread (this post)
'single quoted'
"double quoted"
?question mark"

--[ End of Test ]-------------------------------------------------

Notes:

1. Apps are used offline, outside of DMCalk (excpet #6) on a Windows 10 based PC only (no Apple, Android, Linux products tested).
2. MS Word used for longer posts, so to better organize thoughts and correct grammatical errors, while preserving spell-check utilization.

Conclusion: Don't type your post in an older version of MS Word (or equivalent), then copy/paste into a DMCTalk thread. Use one of the other applications, if needed. This is determined before posting by utilizing the "Preview Post" option. This is not a solution, but at least a temporary work around until a newer version of MS Word can be obtained.

Hope this helps.
Thomas

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[Dangermouse]

Are you using the web version of DMCTalk or the Tapatalk version?

[Citizen]

Are you using the web version of DMCTalk or the Tapatalk version?

Web version only, I don't use Taptalk at all.

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[Helirich]

Conclusion: Don't type your post in an older version of MS Word (or equivalent), then copy/paste into a DMCTalk thread. Use one of the other applications, if needed. This is determined before posting by utilizing the "Preview Post" option. This is not a solution, but at least a temporary work around until a newer version of MS Word can be obtained.

Hope this helps.
Thomas

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I?m not real puter literate, so I always just type in the reply box. (On an IPad)

?Single quote?
?Double quote?
?Question mark?

[81dmc]

Simply put, if you are using anything modern, it will cause this problem.

dmctalk VB4 is old for 2023.
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Most forums have moved to XenForo as it?s easier to use and more modern, secure, etc. I admin on one of them.


I noticed the DMC forums are starting to die though. Many are moving to Facebook.

But I personally hate FB, so if DMC forums completely go belly up, I?ll just stay disconnected.